Chapter 974 I Still Have some Regrets

The news that the box office of "The Matrix" exceeded 100 million yuan on the first day of its release occupied more than 90% of the headlines of the media in China on the second day!

All the other movies that are currently being screened together have a box office of just over 50 million on that day - "The Matrix" dominates 66.1% of the total box office of the day!

53% film placement ratio, 66% box office ratio!

At this time, all the media went crazy.

This achievement is an absolute record for Chinese films and the Chinese film market. Of course, it is worthy of special mention by various media.

Overnight, "The Matrix" stood at the top of Chinese film history.

At this moment, there is even some faint light flickering on it!

Everyone looks up to it.

Looking up at the amazing box office record it has created!

"Blood", "Laughing Heroes", "Fenghuo Opera Princes", at this time, seem to have become so worthless! Except when the media needed to compare them with "The Matrix", they had occupied an important position in major media last week, and they almost disappeared overnight.

At the box office of the day, they basically showed a collective diving posture!

However, it is clear that this is only the beginning.

That afternoon, the box office in North America was closed, and the real-time box office situation there was not transmitted to the Chinese media so quickly. However, Minghu Culture obtained rough data from the publisher in the first place.

On the first day of its release in North America, Saturday, including last night's midnight advance show, "The Matrix" was played in more than 2,200 theaters in North America, and it earned a total box office of 23.53 million US dollars at the box office that day!

In the box office that has been counted so far, it won the box office champion of the day!

When the news came out, including the high-level executives of Minghu Culture and the two teams headed by Zhou Baoshan and He Yingyu who were carrying out publicity in other places, everyone who knew the news was all jubilant.

And on July 22, at four o'clock in the afternoon on Sunday, Minghu Culture's official website officially launched a banner to promote it - warmly congratulate "The Matrix" on its first day of global simultaneous release, and its box office exceeded 100 million US dollars!

When I first saw this title, many people were taken aback. Many people's first reaction was to question its authenticity, suspecting that Minghu Culture was looking for a gimmick and publicity.

But when I opened it, everyone was speechless.

The above clearly lists the release of Minghu Culture in various box office markets around the world on July 21 that has passed and the separate box office on that day!

The three major box office heavyweights, China, North America and Japan, together, have reached as high as 86 million US dollars!

In fact, adding up the global market, only on July 21st, it is only a rough statistics, the global box office of "The Matrix" is 116.25 million US dollars!

The whole country was shocked.

What's more, even Li Qian's most die-hard fans, when they saw this data, would be so stunned that they couldn't believe it!

Because in the past, no Chinese film has ever achieved such a good global box office performance, so in fact, whether it is a Chinese filmmaker or the media, the statistics of the global box office performance are at best based on surrounding units-in fact, even if Just domestic box office statistics, the concept of single-day box office has only just become popular every two years. Because in the past, data collection and statistics were the first thing to do, which was really inconvenient.

And now, Minghu Culture is the first to make a single-day global box office data for a movie!

And such amazing data!

After receiving this data, many media began to collect past data in a panic, wanting to analyze the data of those famous Hollywood blockbusters that were sold all over the world in the past, and trying to come up with similar data the next day. Compared.

However, the editors and reporters hadn't finished their work. At midnight, the Sunday box office in China was out again—"The Matrix" continued to cut a single-day box office of 83.26 million on the second day of its release!

This means that "The Matrix" was released for two days, with a box office of 186.62 million in the first week!

So, on the second day in the Chinese media, this box office figure once again became the headlines of more than 95% of the media!

"The Matrix" is so popular!

Many media have written articles that believe that the box office of all domestic films in the past is not the goal of "The Matrix", but "The Gate of Life and Death" should be its goal!

And then, the film's first weekend box office in North America was officially released.

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Clap clap!

There was a knock on the door, and Glenshire, who was distracted, looked up and said, "Please come in!"

John Dyce pushed open the door and entered.

Grenshall originally had his back to the office door, and was leaning on his desk looking out the window, when he heard the voice and looked back, he quickly turned around with a smile, and greeted him.

"Hi John!"

"Hey, Glenn!"

The two shook hands.

John Dyce said: "I heard that the batch of clothes shipped from China is already in place?"

Glenshire smiled, pretending to be displeased and said: "Hey, John, those trench coats are our business! Columbia is doing it!"

John Dyce smiled, "Of course! Of course! I'm just asking, after all, we are partners in the distribution of this movie, aren't we? This is our business! And if the windbreaker can be in place in time, it is best There are thousands of people wearing that trench coat all over the street, and that's the best free publicity, isn't it?"

After a pause, he emphasized: "What I care about is the box office!"

Glenshire smiled, "Yes, the box office! We all care about the box office!"

That's what I said, but in fact, some things are related to commercial secrets. Although the same boss stands behind Dongfangmeng Film Company and Columbia Film Company, he still won't reveal anything. That is, the first day of listing, the batch of trench coats that were made and shipped from China have sold more than 30,000 pieces so far!

It is exquisitely made and the materials used are exquisite. It is said that it is copied from the original design and original fabric of Neo's clothes in the movie, but it is not a branded product, but it can be sold at the price of mid-range fashion!

The price is as high as $588 a piece!

However, more than 30,000 pieces were sold in one day!

The sunglasses, priced at $98, have sold more than 100,000 pieces!

This is just the beginning!

With years of experience in the past, Glenshire can clearly feel that the power of "The Matrix" has just begun to be unleashed, and the current achievement is far from its peak.

While talking, he invited John Deiss to sit down, but Glenshire couldn't help but turned around and picked up the report again, glanced at it, and smiled - it was the first week's box office results of "The Matrix" in North America.

The first day of release was 23.53 million US dollars, and the next day was 27.04 million US dollars!

"The Matrix", which won a box office of 50.57 million US dollars in the first week, although it does not have an absolute advantage. After all, it has only been released for two days. No. 2, sitting at the top of the box office rankings in North America!

This is of course the first weekly box office champion won by his boss, China Li, in North America!

For Columbia, the distributor, this will become a shining sign in the future, but more importantly, if this movie can continue to be popular as expected, it will bring huge cash flow and huge profits to Columbia. Pure profit!

The secretary came in and brought John Dyce a cup of coffee.

Glenshire also went to sit down and said with a smile: "In fact, Qian once again created a miracle, didn't he?"

John Dyce laughed while holding his coffee mug, "No, Glenn, it's not a miracle!"

He laughed: "For our Chinese boss, this is a very normal thing!"

Glenshire couldn't help laughing when he heard that.

However, I don't know if he was thinking too much when he was distracted just now. At this time, he was far less excited than John Dess. He just smiled and said: "However, it actually has many congenital defects. We all know that, don't we?"

John Dyce shrugged, "Of course! Yes, birth defects!"

But after a pause, he said again: "His hero and heroine are indeed born with defects! If it were a pair of American actors... You know, before this movie started, I asked Qian for it." Expressed my suggestion, and the attitude was extremely fierce, but the boss insisted on his decision!"

Glenshire nodded upon hearing that.

In fact, he felt that with the popularity of the movie in the past two days, the sales of 30,000 windbreakers seemed to be somewhat lacking in strength and enthusiasm—if the sales exceeded 50,000, That couldn't be better!

where is the problem?

The actor Neo's actor is an oriental face, which in his view is of course the crux of the problem.

On the land of North America, an oriental face is naturally less popular and sought after than a white person. This is a reality that no one can change!

If the male and female protagonists of "The Matrix", or even just the male protagonist, are replaced by a handsome American actor, Glenshire believes that its current popularity in North America will immediately rise to a whole level!

If that's the case, the first week's box office may not be able to beat 60 million US dollars, after all, the audience's reputation and evaluation of it are so good!

Of course, it is even more commendable to be able to win a box office of up to 50 million U.S. dollars in two days after it was released in such a situation with huge congenital defects!

It's just that as a distributor, he believes that the potential of this movie should be more than that, so he will feel a little regretful and dissatisfied.

At this time, after thinking about it, Glenshire said: "It is precisely because of Qian's decision that the box office we got in North America is not even as good as the box office this movie got in China... This is really..."

John Dyce laughed.

"Glenn, you have been to China, so I don't think you should say such a thing!"

Glenshire looked at him in surprise.